The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I'll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I'm then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I'll see y'all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any hijinks.

Promos, ads, discount codes

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Rather than subject you to a big text block of ads and such - and save myself from typing it all the time - I put all the conference discount codes and ads I have on one page: http://cote.io/promos. Right now you can get discounts to two DevOpsDays conferences, OSCON in Austin, and the Cloud Foundry Summit next month. There's also some deals from Pivotal.

Go get your free and cheap stuff!

Software Defined Talk 061: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there — cote.io OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis.

Coté Content

There are two podcast episodes this week:

• Software Defined Talk #61 - Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there: OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis.
  

• Lords of Computing #12 - Introducing cloud at Express Scripts, with Brian Gregory: Introducing cloud in a large enterprise can be challenge, and the technology is usually the least of your worries. Matt and I talk with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts who’s been working on transforming Express Scripts to a more cloud native approach to IT and tell us some the history and some of the tactics that he and team have been working through.

Introducing cloud at Express Scripts, with Brian Gregory – — cote.io Summary Introducing cloud in a large enterprise can be challenge, and the technology is usually the least of your worries. Matt and I talk with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts who’s been working on transforming Express Scripts to a more cloud native approach to IT and tell us some the history and some of the…

Links!

Department stores should go ahead and shut down hundreds of locations, report says — qz.com

Software eating more, in retail.

Volkswagen's "Cloud First" Approach to Infrastructure Decisions — www.nextplatform.com

Intel looks to reimagine OpenStack while CoreOS puts it inside Kubernetes — m.v3.co.uk

Running OpenStack like it was an app.

Concourse: Scalable Open Source CI Pipeline Tool — www.infoq.com

This is Pivotal's CI/CD project.

How to Talk in Meetings When You Hate Talking in Meetings — hbr.org

These are actually pretty good tips and ways of thinking about how you approach a meeting.

Continuous Deployment at Instagram — www.infoq.com

Not the best write-up, but another good case.